Kara

So the film festival held in Baltimore this week wasn't exactly the Cannes Film Festival. Chances are no one will mistake it for the Sundance Film Festival, either. But an eighth-grader has to start somewhere. And more than 50 eighth-graders at Lakeland Elementary-Middle School showed from Monday through Wednesday what they could do with a little background music, some narration and writing, lots of computer work (using Windows Movie Maker 2.1) and a ton of research, as they presented short documentaries they had created about topics in black history.

The Rest of Her Life By Laura Moriarty Hyperion / 306 pages / $24.95 Your 18-year-old daughter is driving the family SUV, and she kills someone. What do you do? In Laura Moriarity's second novel, The Rest of Her Life, Leigh Churchill confronts that dilemma head on. After her daughter, Kara, accidentally hits a pedestrian in the crosswalk, Leigh tries to help her daughter cope with the legal and emotional ramifications of the accident. But despite her best efforts, she can't get through to Kara, even though she has a good rapport with just about everyone else in the story: her husband, Gary, a college professor, her prepubescent son, Justin, her sister, Pam, her friend, Eva, and the middle-school students she teaches.

A blue ribbon was awarded for a 79.6-pound watermelon, and emu chili was free for the asking. Midway winners walked off with stuffed prizes in the latest pop culture images: Pokemon and the Taco Bell Chihuahua. A bovine beauty contest was in full swing.And, in the middle of all this, a Texas farm girl asked the burning question: "Do fish get thirsty?"The 118th Maryland State Fair opened in Timonium yesterday -- in all its peach-pie, corn-dog splendor -- with its usual mix of carnival kitsch and farm-family values.

Thirty-four students were in Ms. Terry's first-grade class at Ashburton Elementary School. There was Kara and Ayana and Bryan and Jasmine and Shadriea and Megan and Kellen and -- well, and many more. The school year was 1995-1996, and it ended with a wonderful surprise: Ms. Terry, their beloved teacher, would be their second-grade teacher, too.Kara, for one, dared to wonder: Maybe Miss Terry will be our teacher EVERY year. Until COLLEGE.Alas, that was not to be. Though teaching those children for two years was one of the most thrilling things she'd ever done -- and though watching them leave her nest was anything but easy -- Ms. Terry was a first-grade teacher at heart.

When she finally arrived, after a journey of almost 7,000 miles from her Pikesville home, Kara Silberg broke into tears. There before her in the train station in Tokyo, Japan, stood a woman she knew intimately, a woman whose wedding she had come to take part in, a woman she had never met.After 13 years of letters and photographs, but nothing more tangible than an annual birthday package, Kara had to reach out and poke Eri Okuba to make sure she was really...

Pro basketballPistons: Activated F Rick Mahorn (right foot tendinitis).Warriors: G Muggsy Bogues (Dunbar) has tear in right hamstring and is out pending further evaluation.HockeyCanucks: Acquired G Sean Burke, LW Geoff Sanderson and D Enrico Ciccone from the Hurricanes for G Kirk McLean and LW Martin Gelinas.Devils: Recalled C Brendan Morrison from AHL Albany.Hurricanes: Recalled LW Bates Battaglia and G Tripp Tracy.Maple Leafs: Recalled C Jamie Baker from IHL Chicago.OlympicsSpeed skating: U.S. team members: Dan Westover, Jay Hakkinen, Robert Rosser, Andy Erickson, Kara Hermanson Salmela, Kristina Sabasteanski, Deborah Nordyke, Stacey Wooley, Ntala Skinner.

Kara Reed's three-pointer with 1: 18 left to play lifted Frostburg State to a 54-53 win over Penn State-Behrend in women's college basketball yesterday at Bobcat Arena.Shannon Rexrode had a game-high 18 points for the Bobcats (11-4) and Reed chipped in 16.Washington College 67, Dickinson 54: Katie Bierzonski scored14 as the host Shoremen (10-5, 3-4) won a Centennial Conference game.MenPenn State-Behrend 72, Frostburg 56: The visiting Lions (9-5, 3-1) used a 10-3 run midway through the second half to secure an Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference win over the Bobcats (6-8, 1-4)

Franklin assistant softball coach Buddy Widerman remembers a conversation he had about seven years ago with an 11-year-old pitcher in the Reisterstown recreational league whose shaky confidence did not match her obvious ability.She felt so inferior to another highly touted pitcher in the league that she wanted to quit pitching and play shortstop. Widerman suggested that she split her time between the two positions until she builds enough confidence to pitch full time.Seeing her pitch now, it's hard to believe that Franklin senior right-hander Kara Wingate ever could have doubted herself.

It was quite a day for freshman Arundel catcher Breanna Kitchen yesterday.She not only drove in the winning run with a one-out bases-loaded single in the last of the eighth inning to turn back second-ranked Chesapeake, 4-3, but she predicted the third-ranked Wildcats would win when she walked to her position to start the top of the eighth inning."

For someone who didn't want to pitch and prefers first base to firing windmill pitches, Arundel's Kara Kitchen is not doing badly.Kitchen, who was reluctant to take the mound as a sophomore and was 10-7 for a 10-8 team last year as a junior, went 42 straight innings before giving up an earned run for the No. 2 Wildcats (9-1, 6-0, South Division leader) this spring.The senior right-hander is 7-1, the only loss by 4-0 to Calvert with all the runs unearned in 20-degree weather. Kitchen, who also is batting .430, has a 2-1 eight-inning victory over No. 4 Severna Park (2-3)

April Darchicourt wanted to do something to celebrate the care her daughter received at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. "They did not treat us like an assembly line," she said, recalling that her daughter, Kara, would be 15 this year had she survived cerebral palsy. She died of a seizure in 1999. Each year, Darchicourt, an Edgemere-area homemaker who describes herself as a "domestic goddess," and her husband, Tom, who runs a home improvement business, organize hundreds of motorcyclists for a charity event that brings some excitement to the children being treated at Kennedy Krieger.

FAYE UNTHANK LURZ, age 82 passed away Sunday, February 1, 2009, in Bean Station, TN. She was a longtime resident of Baltimore County. She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter Lurz; sons, Westley and Scott. Surviving children, Walter Lurz of FL, Kurt Lurz of SC, Mark Lurz of TN, Linda Lurz of MD, Neva Nolen of TN and Kara Lurz of TN. She will be missed by eleven grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Service was held on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 in Morristown, TN.

On November 27, 2008, HENRY ROBERT, loving father of Kara Lee Partyka, devoted son of the late Henry and Lillian Partyka. A Memorial Mass will be held at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church (S. Wolfe St & E. Lombard St.), on Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 10am. Interment private. Arrangements by the family owned JOSEPH N. ZANNINO JR. FUNERAL HOME.

Howard County police officials said yesterday that an officer has been placed on administrative leave as part of an internal investigation into the arrest of a man who led police on an erratic chase along Route 32 on Thursday. The agency is investigating the pursuit and arrest of Stephen Zombro, 40, who was wanted on an open warrant for theft. He had been under surveillance and fled from police when they tried to stop him in Jessup on Thursday afternoon, police said. The chase sped west on Route 32 and officers used a device to flatten three of the tires on the pickup truck Zombro was driving.

On April 18, 2008 Gloria D. Beloved wife of the late Paul P. Konski Sr. Beloved mother of Paul P. Jr. and Michael Konski. Grandmother of Paul III, David and James Konski, Kara (Konski) Humphrey and Michelle Konski. Also survived by six Great Grandchildren one sister and one brother. Friends may call at the family owned Gonce Funeral Service P.A., 4001 Ritchie Hwy. on Sunday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 PM. Service on Monday at 1:00 PM. Interment Private. In Lieu of flowers contributions may be made to The Curtis Bay Reck Council, 1630 Filbert St. Balto.

On December 15, 2007, EDWARD ANAWECK, SR.; beloved husband of the late Margaret J. (nee Koenig); devoted father of Edward Anaweck, Jr. and daughter-in-law Lena Anaweck; dear brother of Thomas Anoweck and sister Loretta Galowboski; cherished grandfather of Debra Eversmier and her husband Paul, Karen Smith and Her husband Glee, Brenda Sanpery; great-grandfather of Steven Liller, Michael Sanpery, Desaree, Zachary, Trevor and Kara Smith. A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue, Thursday 11 A.M. Interment Oak Lawn Cemetery.

Havre de Grace High School senior Kara Horning measured two cups of flour, poured it into a glass bowl and added salt and shortening. When the mixture started to resemble her idea of a piecrust, she slowly poured water into the bowl, while Tyrell Graves, 14, stirred. Kirsten Somers, their teacher in the class "Foods for Healthy Living," walked by and noted that the crust mix looked too watery. "Uh-oh. Did you just add a half a cup of water?" she asked. Kara looked from the mixture to the measuring cup. "Oh no, I put in a cup and a half of water," said the 17-year-old pie-making novice.

School plays -- Bel Air High School drama students will perform 1960s suspense thriller Wait Until Dark, Thursday and Saturday in the auditorium, 100 Heighe St. Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, including Ivan Plis (left) as Petruchio and Kara Procell as Kate, will be performed Friday. Shows start at 7 p.m. $8 for adults, $7 for students and $6 for age 12 and under and 60 and over. 410-638-4600.

Kara Brosmer was looking for a school activity to get involved in when she entered Mount Hebron as a freshman. Despite never running before or playing many sports while growing up, she turned to cross country. Now, she is a senior leader for the Vikings. Brosmer said the discipline and dedication required for cross country have helped her in other areas, particularly in the classroom, where she maintains a B average. Along with cross country, Brosmer has been on the varsity outdoor track and field team the past two seasons, specializing in the two-mile event.

The Rest of Her Life By Laura Moriarty Hyperion / 306 pages / $24.95 Your 18-year-old daughter is driving the family SUV, and she kills someone. What do you do? In Laura Moriarity's second novel, The Rest of Her Life, Leigh Churchill confronts that dilemma head on. After her daughter, Kara, accidentally hits a pedestrian in the crosswalk, Leigh tries to help her daughter cope with the legal and emotional ramifications of the accident. But despite her best efforts, she can't get through to Kara, even though she has a good rapport with just about everyone else in the story: her husband, Gary, a college professor, her prepubescent son, Justin, her sister, Pam, her friend, Eva, and the middle-school students she teaches.